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Custom Adhesives

At LD Davis, we pride ourselves on thinking outside the box and our ability to customize our existing animal glue formulas to meet our clients’ needs. We are also never afraid to create a new glue formula or a new custom adhesive for a new or difficult application.

The glues we manufacture, animal glue and liquid glue, are easily customizable in a multitude of ways. While we already have over 100 different kinds of these glues, we are always happy to make changes to create a custom adhesive for our clients.

The properties we can change in animal and liquid glue to create a custom adhesive are as follows:

Viscosity

Open time

Tack level

Color

UV Indicator

Addition of adhesion promoter

pH

Customer Service with Custom Adhesives

The ability to create custom adhesives from our animal glue and liquid glue enables us to serve our customers at the highest level. Our full-service adhesive lab is always ready for a new project and the opportunity to customize a current adhesive product or formulate a new one for our customers’ needs.

LD Davis Adhesive is the Standard

Through 85 years of animal glue manufacturing, LD Davis adhesives have become a staple in the bookbinding, box-making, packaging, and graphic arts industries.

Many of our animal glue and liquid glue products are tried-and-true in these industries and our experienced technical staff can usually provide a solution on the spot for most difficulties that these clients may encounter. If all running parameters are correct, such as viscosity, temperature and solids, our lab may then ask a client to send some samples of adhesives and substrates so we can perform adhesion testing.

This enables us to solve difficulties either by new use instructions, a different LD Davis product, or a completely new, custom adhesive formulated specially for the customer.